I didn’t quite finish the week of posts for the Big Bad Blogger Challenge. Last Friday was kind of crazy doing other things and finishing up a few things here and there for Hair Fair 2009. The final prompt was just to talk about our experience doing the challenge, and I have to say that at the very least, posting more frequently showed me that I do want to keep my blog and that I should make that and taking photos more of a priority. I don’t know how many times I’ve said things like “I want to blog but I don’t know what” or “I miss taking tons of photos” lately, and I’m not sure why I’ve drifted away from doing that. I’m such a sentimental person that the blog and my Flickr stream really are a scrapbook of sorts for me, and I like creating that record. I guess it’s my way of saying I’m here.

Would I participate in this kind of challenge again? Yes, I definitely would. Do I think it’s going to change my future blogging? Maybe. I’m not sure about that. I think it did remind me that a blog post can be short and written without a ton of sweating over it, and for me, that’s a positive. I’ve tried before to just give myself 15 minutes to write and then to hit publish when that time is up, and that might be something I do more often. Looking back over my posts from the beginning of this blog, I also notice that I don’t explore new places nearly as often as I once did, so maybe I’ll try to do more travel entries in the future.

All of this also reminded me that I’ve had another site design on the back burner for over a year now. There’s still some pieces of that I think I’d like to try to salvage, so maybe I’ll do some sprucing up around here and settle back in for a while. It’s just time to figure out exactly what I want to get out of this place in more ways than one. Perhaps I’ll go sit on a star and ponder my place in the universe.